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Clamshell doors: the slightly different vehicle doors!

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Clamshell doors: the slightly different vehicle doors!

clamshell is not a new region or fortress in Lord of the Rings or Middle-earth, but a visually successful addition to the automotive sector doorway. Well-known manufacturers such as Mazda, Porsche or Peugeot are often pioneers for new technologies and useful everyday additions. And Clamshell doors are no exception. That's a kind of door that the Suicide Doors is similar, with one difference. The front door must be opened before the rear door can be opened. In the case of suicide doors, either the front or the back can be opened. Clamshell doors can be a practical addition to everyday life. A automatic respectively on button The opening door can be useful when you are shopping alone and you do not have a free hand to open the trunk lid to stow your belongings there. It also looks good when others see what a great gadget you have on your vehicle.

Benefits and assembly aspects

When it comes to assembly as a retrofit is possible, the project should of course be taken over by a workshop / specialist company, insofar as there are providers at all who can carry out such a conversion. Especially when installing load-bearing parts Like the doors and B-pillars, laypeople can do a lot wrong and put themselves and others in danger. And if the doors are to be opened electrically, then the associated cables and drives must be properly and safely laid and connected.

Clamshell doors: the slightly different vehicle doors!

Electronic locking mechanisms at the push of a button have been around for decades, they can be brought into a vehicle legally by means of tuning that previously was one conventional door system / a conventional tailgate had installed, however, is almost locked out. At least in this country. After all, you intervene deeply in the statics of the vehicle, because the B-pillar should be completely removed so that it looks good. This is how it is done right. In any case, this is a load-bearing Part of the body. In reality, hardly any cars can be modified in such a way that clamshell doors can be legally installed and existing doors can be replaced / expanded. In principle, every intervention in the building or material mass subject to acceptance is. Modifications and all built-in components should therefore only be carried out by specialist workshops, especially for safety reasons.

Clamshell doors: the slightly different vehicle doors!

Clamshell doors made of thin and break-prone glass or material that cannot withstand extreme weather conditions are used in traffic nothing to search. Such cheap conversions are offered from time to time in the area of ​​the tailgate by some "Far East tuners" for various models and a narrow course. In the video below is a 1973 Chevrolet Caprice estate wagon to see such a clamshell-doors system in the form of a two-part tailgate ex works has installed. That is quite spectacular to look at, but retrofitting is under almost impossible under normal circumstances. And finally ... An Trailer Queen It might be a good idea for such a conversion for show purposes, but a street-legal vehicle will probably not legally come onto the road.

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